#THE CANTONMENTS (EXTENSION OF RENT CONTROL LAWS) ACT, 1957 
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##ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 
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SECTIONS 

1. Short title. 
2. Definitions. 
3. Power to extend to cantonments laws relating to control of rents and regulation of house 
  accommodation. 
4. Extension of the Madhya Bharat Accommodation Control Act, 1955 to the cantonment of Mhow. 



#THE CANTONMENTS (EXTENSION OF RENT CONTROL LAWS) ACT, 1957 

##ACT NO. 46 OF 1957 

[18th December, 1957.] 

An Act  to  provide  for  the  extension  to  cantonments  of  laws  relating  to  the  control  of  rent  and 
  regulation of house accommodation. 

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:— 

1. **Short title.**—(1) This  Act  may  be  called  the  Cantonments  (Extension  of  Rent  Control  Laws) 
Act, 1957. 

  (2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 26th day of January, 1950.

2. **Definitions.**—In  this  Act,  “cantonment”  means  any  place  declared  to  be  a  cantonment  under 
section 3 of the Cantonments Act, 1924 (2 of 1924). 

3. **Power to  extend  to  cantonments  laws  relating  to  control  of  rents  and  regulation  of  house 
accommodation.**—(1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, extend to 
any  cantonment  with  such  restrictions  and  modifications  as  it  thinks  fit,  any  enactment  relating  to  the 
control  of  rent and regulation  of  house  accommodation  which  is  in  force in the  State  in  which the 
cantonment is situated: 

  Provided that nothing contained in any enactment so extended shall apply to— 

     (a) any premises within the cantonment belonging to the Government; 

     (b) any tenancy or other like relationship created by a grant from the Government in  respect of 
premises within the cantonment taken on lease or requisitioned by the Government; or 

     (c) any  house  within  the  cantonment  which  is,  or  may  be,  appropriated  by  the  Central 
Government on lease under the Cantonments (House Accommodation) Act, 1923 (6 of 1923). 

(2) The extension of any enactment under sub-section (1) may be made from such earlier or future 
date as the Central Government may think fit: 

  Provided that no such extension shall be made from a date earlier than— 

     (a) the commencement of such enactment, or 

     (b) the establishment of the cantonment, or 

     (c) the commencement of this Act, 

whichever is later. 

(3) Where any enactment in force in any State relating to the control of rent and regulation of house 
accommodation is extended to a cantonment from a date earlier than the date on which such extension is 
made (hereafter referred to as the  “earlier date”), such enactment, as in force on such earlier date, shall 
apply to such cantonment, and, where any such enactment has been amended at any time after the earlier 
date but before the commencement of the Cantonments (Extension of Rent Control Laws) Amendment 
Act, 1972 (22 of 1972), such enactment as amended, shall apply to the cantonment on and from the date 
on which the enactment by which such amendment was made came into force. 

(4) Where, before the extension to a cantonment of any enactment relating to the control of rent and 
regulation of house accommodation therein (hereafter referred to as the “Rent Control Act”),— 

  (i) any decree or order for the regulation of, or for eviction from, any house accommodation in 
that cantonment, or 

  (ii) any order in the proceedings for the execution of such decree or order, or 

  (iii) any order relating to the control of rent or other incident of such house accommodation, 

was made by any court, tribunal or other authority in accordance with any law for the control of rent and 
regulation of house accommodation for the time being in force in the State in which such cantonment is 
situated, such decree or order shall, on and from the date on which the Rent Control Act is extended to 
that cantonment, be deemed to have been made under the corresponding provisions of the Rent Control 
Act, as extended to that cantonment, as if the said Rent Control Act, as so extended, were in force in that 
cantonment, on the date on which such decree or order was made.

4. **Extension  of  the  Madhya  Bharat  Accommodation  Control  Act,  1955  to  the  cantonment  of 
Mhow.**—(1) The Madhya Bharat Accommodation Control Act, 1955 (Madhya Bharat Act 23 of 1955), 
as  in  force  in  that  part  of  the  State  of  Madhya  Pradesh  which  immediately  before  the  1st  day  of 
November, 1956, formed the State of Madhya Bharat is hereby extended to, and brought into force in, the 
cantonment of Mhow with the following modifications, namely:— 

  In the said Act,— 

     (a) for the words “commencement of this Act” wherever they occur, the words “extension of 
this Act to the cantonment” shall be substituted; 

     (b) in  section  1,  for  sub-sections  (2),  (3)  and  (4),  the  following  sub-sections  shall  be 
substituted, namely:— 

       “(2) It extends to the Cantonment of Mhow. 

       (3) It  shall  remain  in  force  upto  the  31st  day  of  December,  1957;  but  the  Central 
Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, direct from time to time that it shall 
remain in force for such further period as may be specified in the notification so, however, 
that the total period for which it may remain in force shall not exceed two years from the 31st 
day of December, 1957.”; 

     (c) in  section 2, in clause (b) of sub-section (1), for the words  “a Municipality”, the words 
“the Cantonment Board” shall be substituted; 

     (d) in section 3, in clause (e), for the word “Municipal”, the words “Cantonment Board” shall 
be substituted; 

     (e) in section 4,— 

       (i) in clause (g), for the words “city or town concerned”, the word “cantonment” shall be 
substituted; 

       (ii) in clause (h), for the words “city or town for that purpose and if he was in occupation, 
has for sufficient reasons vacated it after the Act has been extended to that city or town”, the 
words “cantonment  for  that  purpose  or  if  he  was  in  occupation,  has  for  sufficient  reasons 
vacated it after the extension of this Act thereto” shall be substituted; 

     (f) in section 6,— 

       (i) in sub-section (1), the words and brackets “situated in the city of Lashkar (including 
Gwalior and Morar), Indore, Ujjain or Ratlam” shall be omitted; 

       (ii) sub-section (2) shall be omitted; 

     (g) in section 14, the words “the provisions of this Act cease to be applicable to any town, or” 
shall be omitted; 

     (h) in section 15, after the word “instituted”, the words “or if instituted, continued”, shall be 
inserted; 

     (i) in section 18, sub-section (4) shall be omitted; 

     (j) in section 21, the words “or deemed to have been passed” shall be omitted; 

     (k) in section 22, the words “or deemed to have been made” shall be omitted; 

     (l) section 23, section 27 and the Schedule shall be omitted; 

     (m) in sections 24 and 25, the words “or deemed to have been made” shall be omitted. 

(2) Any law relating to the control of rent and regulation of house accommodation in force in the 
cantonment  of  Mhow  immediately  before  the  commencement  therein  of  the  Madhya  Bharat 
Accommodation  Control  Act,  1955  (Madhya  Bharat  Act  23  of  1955),  shall  be,  and  shall  be  deemed 
always  to  have  been,  extended  to  that  cantonment  under  section  3  of  this  Act  with  effect  from  the 
commencement  of  such  law  in  that  cantonment  or  from  the  commencement  of  this  Act,  whichever  is 
later: 

Provided  that  no  such  law  shall  continue,  and  shall  be  deemed  to  have  continued,  in  force  in  the 
cantonment  of  Mhow  on  and  from  the  commencement  therein  of  the  Madhya  Bharat  Accommodation 
Control Act, 1955 (Madhya Bharat Act 23 of 1955). 

(3) Where, before the extension under sub-section (2) of any law to the cantonment of Mhow,— 

  (i) any decree or order for the regulation of, or for eviction from, any house accommodation in 
that cantonment; or 

  (ii) any order in the proceedings for the execution of such decree or order; or 

  (iii) any order relating to the control of rent or other incident of such house accommodation, 

was made by any court, tribunal or other authority in accordance with any law for the control of rent and 
regulation of house accommodation for the time being in force in that  cantonment, such decree or order 
shall,  on  and  from  the  commencement  of  such  law  in  that  cantonment,  be  deemed  to  have  been  made 
under  the  corresponding  provisions  of  the  first-mentioned  Act  as  if  the  said  Act  were  in  force  in  that 
cantonment on the date on which such decree or order was made.